If you’re drinking something, we suggest you finish consuming it before reading any further. You have been warned.
A big-screen version of Candy Land has been in development for some time but it seems that Hollywood is finally moving forward on the film. That’s led many of us to wonder what a Candy Land movie would look like when it opened in theaters.
Well, now we know. Screenwriter Jonathan Aibel announced this week what the film will be like.
“We envision it as Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy,” he tells Entertainment Weekly.
If you’re having a hard time wrapping your mind around that one (or cleaning up the drink from your screen (we did warn you!)), Aibel’s attempts to elaborate won’t help much.
“We don’t see it as a movie based on a board game, although it has characters from that world and takes the idea of people finding themselves in a world that happens to be made entirely of candy where there are huge battles going on. We are going for real comedy, real action, and real emotions at stake,” he says.
Alrighty then…..
Might not be so bad if it’s animated. I can actually see that. If they do it live action without someone like Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton or Guillermo del Toro at the helm, that’s another story.
If they have a cute character saying “Sweeeet” in the trailer, I’m boycotting.
Hrmmmm mmmmeeeeehhhhhhhhhh
The only way this will be an epic film is if they turn the Spaceballs route and just make this as cheesy as possible by adapting every single popular sci-fi movie for this.
“I’ve got a bad filling about this.”
“I say we take off and bake the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
“Take your sticky paws off me, you damned dirty jawbreaker!”
“Open the oven bay doors HAL.”
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t eat roads.”
“It’s candy Captain, but not candy as we know it.”
“He who controls the sugar, controls the universe!”
lol…I’m speechless.
If you don’t see it as a movie based on a board game, WHY NAME IT AFTER A BOARD GAME?? I swear, movie makers today are like lottery winners that lack good taste. What’s next, a Pictionary movie where everything you draw on a magic tablet comes to life? If so, I’d like to be the first to draw Mega-Maid from Spaceballs suck, suck, sucking all the cash from Hollywood into my bank account.